Franco Vona

Franco Vona (born 20 August 1964) is a former Italian racing cyclist. Vona won three stages of the Giro d'Italia and placed 6th overall in 1992. During the 1992 Tour de France he placed 2nd on the only two high mountain stages of the race and was inside the top 10 until the final ITT which dropped him to 11th. Later in his career he rode on the powerful Maglificio team of Patrick Lefevere and Roger De Vlaeminck and earned TTT stage victories in the 1993 and 1994 editions of the Tour de France.

Major results

1988 1st Stage 16, Giro d'Italia 1989 3rd Overall, Vuelta a Venezuela 1st Stage 5 3rd Stage 19, Giro d'Italia 12th, Züri-Metzgete 1991 1st Stage 6, Tour de Suisse 1992 6th Overall, Giro d'Italia 1st Stages 5 & 12 11th Overall, Tour de France 2nd Stages 13 & 14 1993 21st Overall, Tour de France 1st Stage 4 (TTT) 1994 16th, Liège–Bastogne–Liège 37th Overall, Tour de France 1st Stage 3 (TTT) 1995 48th Overall, Tour de France